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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

January 08, 2023

Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE (9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss.[1][2] After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.[3]


Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

DBE
The soprano around 1950
Born
Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf

(1915-12-09)9 December 1915
Jarotschin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Poland)
Died3 August 2006(2006-08-03) (aged 90)
Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria
Occupations
Organizations
Title
Awards

Early life

Schwarzkopf was born on 9 December 1915 in Jarotschin in the Province of Posen in Prussia, Germany (now Poland) to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife, Elisabeth (née Fröhlich). Schwarzkopf performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where her singing tutor, Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, attempted to train her to be a mezzo-soprano. Schwarzkopf later trained under Maria Ivogün, and in 1938 joined the Deutsche Oper.[4]

Early career

In 1933, shortly after the Nazis came to power, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's father, a local school headmaster, was dismissed from his position by the new ruling authorities for having refused to allow a Nazi party meeting at his school. He was also banned from taking any new teaching post. Until Friedrich Schwarzkopf's dismissal, the probability was that the 17-year-old Elisabeth would have studied medicine after passing her Abitur; but now, as the daughter of a banned school teacher, she was not allowed to enter university and she commenced music studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Schwarzkopf made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (then called Deutsches Opernhaus) on 15 April 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in act 2 of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. In 1940 Schwarzkopf was awarded a full contract with the Deutsches Opernhaus, a condition of which was that she had to join the Nazi party.[5]

Since the theme was brought up in the dissertation of the Austrian historian Oliver Rathkolb in 1982, the question of Schwarzkopf's relationship with the Nazi Party has been discussed repeatedly in the media and in literature.[6] There was criticism that Schwarzkopf, not only in the years immediately after the war but also in confrontation with revelations made in the 1980s and 1990s made contradictory statements, including in regard to her membership in the NSDAP (Member No. 7,548,960). At first, she denied this and then with varying explanations defended it. In one version, for example, she claimed that she joined the party only at the insistence of her father who, himself, had earlier lost his position as school principal after forbidding a Nazi program in the school.[7]

Further publications discussed her musical performances during the war before Nazi party conferences and for units of the Waffen-SS.[7] Her defenders argue in favor of her claim that she always strictly separated art from politics and that she was a non-political person.[8]

In 1942, she was invited to sing with the Vienna State Opera, where her roles included Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Musetta and later Mimì in Puccini's La bohème and Violetta in Verdi's La traviata.

Schwarzkopf starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels,[9][10] in which she acted, sang and played the piano.[4]

Post-war career

 
Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni

In 1945, Schwarzkopf was granted Austrian citizenship to enable her to sing in the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper).[citation needed] In 1947 and 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni and at La Scala on 28 December 1948, as the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which became one of her signature roles.

Schwarzkopf later made her official debut at the Royal Opera House on 16 January 1948, as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, in performances sung in English, and at La Scala on 29 June 1950 singing Beethoven's Missa solemnis. Schwarzkopf's association with the Milanese house in the early 1950s gave her the opportunity to sing certain roles on stage for the only time in her career: Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Iole in Handel's Hercules, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, as well as her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and her first Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Piccola Scala. On 11 September 1951, she appeared as Anne Trulove in the world premiere of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Schwarzkopf made her American concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on October 28 and 29, 1954, in Strauss's Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting; her Carnegie Hall debut was a Lieder recital on 25 November 1956;[11] her American opera debut was with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September 1955 as the Marschallin, and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 13 October 1964, also as the Marschallin.[12]

 
Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier

In March 1946, Schwarzkopf was invited to audition for Walter Legge, an influential British classical record producer and a founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Legge asked her to sing Hugo Wolf's lied Wer rief dich denn? and, impressed, signed her to an exclusive contract with EMI. They began a close partnership and Legge subsequently became Schwarzkopf's manager and companion. They were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage. Schwarzkopf would divide her time between lieder recitals and opera performances for the rest of her career. When invited in 1958 to select her eight favourite records on the BBC's Desert Island Discs, Schwarzkopf chose seven of her own recordings,[13] and an eighth of Karajan conducting the Rosenkavalier prelude, as they evoked fond memories of the people she had worked with.[14][15][16][17]

In the 1960s, Schwarzkopf concentrated nearly exclusively on five operatic roles: Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Strauss's Capriccio, and the Marschallin. She was also well received as Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. However, on the EMI label she made several "champagne operetta" recordings like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Johann Strauss II's The Gypsy Baron.

Schwarzkopf's last operatic performance was as the Marschallin on 31 December 1971, in the theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels. For the next several years, she devoted herself exclusively to lieder recitals. On 17 March 1979, Walter Legge suffered a severe heart attack. He disregarded doctor's orders to rest and attended Schwarzkopf's final recital two days later in Zurich. Three days later, he died.

Retirement and death

 
Grave in Zumikon

After retiring (almost immediately after her husband's death), Schwarzkopf taught and gave master classes around the world, notably at the Juilliard School in New York City. After living in Switzerland for many years, she took up residence in Austria. She was made a doctor of music by the University of Cambridge in 1976, and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1992.[18]

Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her ashes, and those of Walter Legge, were buried next to her parents in Zumikon near Zürich, where she had lived from 1982 to 2003.

Legacy

Her discography is considerable both in quality and in quantity and is distinguished for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals, her two commercial recordings of Strauss's Four Last Songs and her recordings of lieder, especially those of Wolf.

Schwarzkopf is generally considered to have been the greatest German lyric soprano of the twentieth century and one of the finest Mozart singers of all time with an "indescribably beautiful" voice.[19]

Schwarzkopf's entry in The Grove Book of Opera Singers concludes: "Although she dismissed her [Nazi Party] membership as a professional necessity, her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active party membership."[1]

Awards

 
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Amsterdam, 1961)

Quotations

  • (After being asked about Peter Sellars) "There are names I do not want mentioned in my home. Do not say that name in my presence. I have seen what he has done, and it is criminal. As my husband used to say, so far no one has dared go into the Louvre Museum to spray graffiti on the Mona Lisa, but some opera directors are spraying graffiti over masterpieces." – Newsweek interview, 15 October 1990
  • "Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick." – Newsweek interview, 15 October 1990
  • (Asked in 1995 if she would sing in the cultural climate of the 1990s if she were much younger) "It's a kind of prostitution now. There is nobody I envy. There's a disintegration of integrity in our profession."[21]

Recordings

External audio
  Schwarzkopf as Hanna Glawari in a complete recording of Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow, Lovro von Matačić conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra with Eberhard Waechter and Nicolai Gedda in 1963
  • Recital at Carnegie Hall (1956), EMI in "Great Performances of the Century", 1989[22]

Bach

Brahms

Humperdinck

Lehár

Mozart

Puccini

Johann Strauss II

Richard Strauss

External audio
  Schwarzkopf in a complete recording of Brahms' A German Requiem, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Hotter in 1947

Verdi

Richard Wagner

Video

She can be seen in two videotaped performances as the Marschallin:

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
  2. ^ Lol Henderson; Lee Stacey (27 January 2014). Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century. Routledge. pp. 565–. ISBN 978-1-135-92946-6.
  3. ^ see eg Opera World Best Sopranos of the 20th Century
  4. ^ a b "Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf". The Telegraph. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  5. ^ Pick, Hella (2000). Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider. p. 89. ISBN 978-1860646188. Schwarzkopf who justified Party membership as a passport to performance
  6. ^ Kater, Michael H. (24 August 2006). "The Nazi past of the late, great German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  7. ^ a b Bernstein, Adam (4 August 2006). "Renowned Coloratura Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  8. ^ Tagliabue, John (17 March 1983). "Germans Explore Ties of Musicians of Nazis". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Alan Jefferson". The Telegraph. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  10. ^ Michael Church (23 October 2011). "BOOK REVIEW / Her Masters' voice". The Independent. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  11. ^ "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Opera Singer, Dies at 90" by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 4 August 2006 (requires registration)
  12. ^ "Der Rosenkavalier {191} Metropolitan Opera House: 10/13/1964". Metropolitan Opera Archives. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  13. ^ "BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf". Bbc.co.uk. 28 July 1958. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  14. ^ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Alan Jefferson (1996). "In any case, this famous Desert Island Discs broadcast has gone down in legend, immediately identifying Schwarzkopf for many who had never previously heard of her."
  15. ^ Gramophone, vol. 83 (2006). "1958 Appears on Desert Island Discs and raises eyebrows by ..."
  16. ^ Gramophone, vol. 83 (2005), Letters. "Schwarzkopf's Desert Island Discs Talk has come up again of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her Desert Island Discs broadcast in 1958 [and recently repeated on Radio 3] with her unique choice of seven of her ..."
  17. ^ Prima donna: a history, Rupert Christiansen (1995). "It made Schwarzkopf into a uniquely self-conscious interpreter: it was perfectly natural to her that when asked on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs to select eight recordings to be shipwrecked with, she should choose only her ..."
  18. ^ "Viewing Page 7 of Issue 52767". London-gazette.co.uk. 30 December 1991. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  19. ^ Matthew Boyden. The Rough Guide to Opera, 3rd Edition London: Rough Guides Ltd., 2002
  20. ^ "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)". Gramophone. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  21. ^ John von Rhein (18 August 1996). "Past Imperfect". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  22. ^ "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Recital", review by John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune, 30 April 1989

Further reading

  • Jefferson, Alan Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Northeastern University Press (August 1996) ISBN 1-55553-272-1 Chapter One extract
  • Legge, Walter; postscript by Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; ed. Sanders, Alan Walter Legge: Words and Music Routledge (1998) ISBN 0-415-92108-2
  • Liese, Kirsten, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. From Flower Maiden To Marschallin. English translation: Charles Scribner. Molden, Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-85485-218-6; Amadeus Press, New York, 2009. ISBN 978-1-57467-175-9
  • Sanders, Alan The Schwarzkopf Tapes: An artist replies to a hostile biography, Classical Recordings Quarterly and The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Walter Legge Society, (2010) ISBN 978-0-9567361-0-9
  • Sanders, Alan and Steane, John B. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Career on Record, Amadeus Press (January 1996) ISBN 0-931340-99-3
  • Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Les autres soirs Tallandier (August 16, 2004) ISBN 2-84734-068-8
  • Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge Faber and Faber (December 31, 1982) ISBN 0-571-11928-X; Scribner (March 1982) ISBN 0-684-17451-0; (paperback) ISBN 0-571-14912-X; University of British Columbia Press (January 1, 2002) ISBN 1-55553-519-4

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Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf DBE 9 December 1915 3 August 2006 was a German born Austro British soprano She was among the foremost singers of lieder and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta as well as the operas of Mozart Wagner and Richard Strauss 1 2 After retiring from the stage she was a voice teacher internationally She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century 3 Elisabeth SchwarzkopfDBEThe soprano around 1950BornOlga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf 1915 12 09 9 December 1915Jarotschin Kingdom of Prussia German Empire now Poland Died3 August 2006 2006 08 03 aged 90 Schruns Vorarlberg AustriaOccupationsClassical soprano Voice teacherOrganizationsDeutsche Oper Berlin Vienna State Opera Salzburg FestivalTitleKammersangerin Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des LettresAwardsLilli Lehmann Medal Edison Award Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany UNESCO Mozart Medal Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Post war career 4 Retirement and death 5 Legacy 6 Awards 7 Quotations 8 Recordings 9 Video 10 Notes and references 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life EditSchwarzkopf was born on 9 December 1915 in Jarotschin in the Province of Posen in Prussia Germany now Poland to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife Elisabeth nee Frohlich Schwarzkopf performed in her first opera in 1928 as Eurydice in a school production of Gluck s Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg Germany In 1934 Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik where her singing tutor Lula Mysz Gmeiner attempted to train her to be a mezzo soprano Schwarzkopf later trained under Maria Ivogun and in 1938 joined the Deutsche Oper 4 Early career EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message In 1933 shortly after the Nazis came to power Elisabeth Schwarzkopf s father a local school headmaster was dismissed from his position by the new ruling authorities for having refused to allow a Nazi party meeting at his school He was also banned from taking any new teaching post Until Friedrich Schwarzkopf s dismissal the probability was that the 17 year old Elisabeth would have studied medicine after passing her Abitur but now as the daughter of a banned school teacher she was not allowed to enter university and she commenced music studies at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik Schwarzkopf made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin then called Deutsches Opernhaus on 15 April 1938 as the Second Flower Maiden First Group in act 2 of Richard Wagner s Parsifal In 1940 Schwarzkopf was awarded a full contract with the Deutsches Opernhaus a condition of which was that she had to join the Nazi party 5 Since the theme was brought up in the dissertation of the Austrian historian Oliver Rathkolb in 1982 the question of Schwarzkopf s relationship with the Nazi Party has been discussed repeatedly in the media and in literature 6 There was criticism that Schwarzkopf not only in the years immediately after the war but also in confrontation with revelations made in the 1980s and 1990s made contradictory statements including in regard to her membership in the NSDAP Member No 7 548 960 At first she denied this and then with varying explanations defended it In one version for example she claimed that she joined the party only at the insistence of her father who himself had earlier lost his position as school principal after forbidding a Nazi program in the school 7 Further publications discussed her musical performances during the war before Nazi party conferences and for units of the Waffen SS 7 Her defenders argue in favor of her claim that she always strictly separated art from politics and that she was a non political person 8 In 1942 she was invited to sing with the Vienna State Opera where her roles included Konstanze in Mozart s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Musetta and later Mimi in Puccini s La boheme and Violetta in Verdi sLa traviata Schwarzkopf starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels 9 10 in which she acted sang and played the piano 4 Post war career Edit Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart s Don Giovanni In 1945 Schwarzkopf was granted Austrian citizenship to enable her to sing in the Vienna State Opera Wiener Staatsoper citation needed In 1947 and 1948 Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart s Don Giovanni and at La Scala on 28 December 1948 as the Countess in Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro which became one of her signature roles Schwarzkopf later made her official debut at the Royal Opera House on 16 January 1948 as Pamina in Mozart s The Magic Flute in performances sung in English and at La Scala on 29 June 1950 singing Beethoven s Missa solemnis Schwarzkopf s association with the Milanese house in the early 1950s gave her the opportunity to sing certain roles on stage for the only time in her career Melisande in Debussy s Pelleas et Melisande Iole in Handel s Hercules Marguerite in Gounod s Faust Elsa in Wagner s Lohengrin as well as her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss s Der Rosenkavalier and her first Fiordiligi in Mozart s Cosi fan tutte at the Piccola Scala On 11 September 1951 she appeared as Anne Trulove in the world premiere of Stravinsky s The Rake s Progress Schwarzkopf made her American concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on October 28 and 29 1954 in Strauss s Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting her Carnegie Hall debut was a Lieder recital on 25 November 1956 11 her American opera debut was with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September 1955 as the Marschallin and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 13 October 1964 also as the Marschallin 12 Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier In March 1946 Schwarzkopf was invited to audition for Walter Legge an influential British classical record producer and a founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra Legge asked her to sing Hugo Wolf s lied Wer rief dich denn and impressed signed her to an exclusive contract with EMI They began a close partnership and Legge subsequently became Schwarzkopf s manager and companion They were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom Surrey Schwarzkopf thus acquired British citizenship by marriage Schwarzkopf would divide her time between lieder recitals and opera performances for the rest of her career When invited in 1958 to select her eight favourite records on the BBC s Desert Island Discs Schwarzkopf chose seven of her own recordings 13 and an eighth of Karajan conducting the Rosenkavalier prelude as they evoked fond memories of the people she had worked with 14 15 16 17 In the 1960s Schwarzkopf concentrated nearly exclusively on five operatic roles Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte Countess Madeleine in Strauss s Capriccio and the Marschallin She was also well received as Alice Ford in Verdi s Falstaff However on the EMI label she made several champagne operetta recordings like Franz Lehar s The Merry Widow and Johann Strauss II s The Gypsy Baron Schwarzkopf s last operatic performance was as the Marschallin on 31 December 1971 in the theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels For the next several years she devoted herself exclusively to lieder recitals On 17 March 1979 Walter Legge suffered a severe heart attack He disregarded doctor s orders to rest and attended Schwarzkopf s final recital two days later in Zurich Three days later he died Retirement and death Edit Grave in Zumikon After retiring almost immediately after her husband s death Schwarzkopf taught and gave master classes around the world notably at the Juilliard School in New York City After living in Switzerland for many years she took up residence in Austria She was made a doctor of music by the University of Cambridge in 1976 and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE in 1992 18 Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2 3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns Vorarlberg Austria aged 90 Her ashes and those of Walter Legge were buried next to her parents in Zumikon near Zurich where she had lived from 1982 to 2003 Legacy EditHer discography is considerable both in quality and in quantity and is distinguished for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals her two commercial recordings of Strauss s Four Last Songs and her recordings of lieder especially those of Wolf Schwarzkopf is generally considered to have been the greatest German lyric soprano of the twentieth century and one of the finest Mozart singers of all time with an indescribably beautiful voice 19 Schwarzkopf s entry in The Grove Book of Opera Singers concludes Although she dismissed her Nazi Party membership as a professional necessity her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active party membership 1 Awards Edit Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Amsterdam 1961 1950 Lilli Lehmann Medal Mozarteum International Foundation Salzburg 1959 1 Orfeo d Oro Mantua 1969 Orphee d or recording award from the Academie du disque lyrique in Paris 1961 Edison Award Amsterdam 1961 Awarded the title Deutsche Kammersangerin 1964 Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music 1967 Stockholm television award for best European soprano Stockholmer 1971 Hugo Wolf Medal 1974 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1982 Mozart Medal of the city of Frankfurt am Main 1983 Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and title of Kammersangerin 1986 Commandeur de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1991 UNESCO Mozart Medal 1992 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music 2002 Honorary Medal of the City of Vienna de 2012 Voted into Gramophone Hall of Fame 20 Quotations EditThis section is a candidate to be copied to Wikiquote using the Transwiki process After being asked about Peter Sellars There are names I do not want mentioned in my home Do not say that name in my presence I have seen what he has done and it is criminal As my husband used to say so far no one has dared go into the Louvre Museum to spray graffiti on the Mona Lisa but some opera directors are spraying graffiti over masterpieces Newsweek interview 15 October 1990 Many composers today don t know what the human throat is At Bloomington Indiana I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices I had to go out to be sick Newsweek interview 15 October 1990 Asked in 1995 if she would sing in the cultural climate of the 1990s if she were much younger It s a kind of prostitution now There is nobody I envy There s a disintegration of integrity in our profession 21 Recordings EditExternal audio Schwarzkopf as Hanna Glawari in a complete recording of Lehar s operetta The Merry Widow Lovro von Matacic conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra with Eberhard Waechter and Nicolai Gedda in 1963Recital at Carnegie Hall 1956 EMI in Great Performances of the Century 1989 22 Bach St Matthew Passion Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra Warner Classics 1961 Brahms A German Requiem Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra Warner Classics 1961 Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel Karajan 1953 Naxos 8 110897 98Lehar Das Land des Lachelns Ackermann 1953 and excerpts from Lehar Operettas Naxos 8 111016 17 Die lustige Witwe Kunz Gedda 1953 Naxos 8 111007Mozart Don Giovanni Carlo Maria Giulini Philharmonia Orchestra Warner Classics 1959 with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna Le nozze di Figaro Carlo Maria Giulini Philharmonia Orchestra Warner Classics 1959 Cosi fan tutte Otto Karajan 1954 Naxos 8 111232 34 Die Zauberflote Otto Klemperer 1960 EMI 5673852 She plays the First Lady Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Rudolf Moralt 1949 Gala GL100 501 Puccini Turandot as Liu Tullio Serafin La Scala Orchestra 1957 EMI Classics Callas as TurandotJohann Strauss II Die Fledermaus Gedda Karajan 1955 Naxos 8 111036 37 Der Zigeunerbaron Gedda Prey Kunz 1954 Otto Ackermann Philharmonia Orchestra amp Chorus EMI Classics 67535 ADD monaural 2CDs 56 00 44 11Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Herbert von Karajan 1956 EMI 77357 The Marschallin was considered her signature role Four Last Songs Arabella highlights Ackermann Matacic 1953 1954 Naxos 8 111145 Four Last Songs Szell 1965 Warner Classics Great Recordings of the Century Cat 0724356696020 Ariadne auf Naxos Streich Karajan 1954 Naxos 8 111033 34 Capriccio Christa Ludwig Dietrich Fischer Dieskau Nicolai Gedda Wolfgang Sawallisch 1957 Warner Classics CDS 7 49014 8External audio Schwarzkopf in a complete recording of Brahms A German Requiem Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Hotter in 1947Verdi Messa da Requiem Di Stefano De Sabata 1954 Naxos 8 111049 50Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Karajan 1951 Naxos 8 110872 75Video EditShe can be seen in two videotaped performances as the Marschallin Schwarzkopf Seefried Fischer Dieskau a black and white DVD of these three singers Schwarzkopf performs the Act I Finale from Der Rosenkavalier from a performance filmed in London 1961 Published by Warner Classics Catalog number DVB 4904429 Der Rosenkavalier the Film a color videotape DVD of a full length performance conducted by Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1961 Salzburg Festival featuring Sena Jurinac Anneliese Rothenberger Otto Edelmann and Erich Kunz film directed by Paul Czinner Published by KULTUR ASIN B0043988GM Notes and references Edit a b Laura Williams Macy 2008 The Grove Book of Opera Singers Oxford University Press pp 442 ISBN 978 0 19 533765 5 Lol Henderson Lee Stacey 27 January 2014 Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century Routledge pp 565 ISBN 978 1 135 92946 6 see eg Opera World Best Sopranos of the 20th Century a b Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The Telegraph 4 August 2006 Retrieved 1 December 2015 Pick Hella 2000 Guilty Victim Austria from the Holocaust to Haider p 89 ISBN 978 1860646188 Schwarzkopf who justified Party membership as a passport to performance Kater Michael H 24 August 2006 The Nazi past of the late great German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The Guardian Retrieved 13 October 2017 a b Bernstein Adam 4 August 2006 Renowned Coloratura Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 90 The Washington Post Retrieved 4 August 2015 Tagliabue John 17 March 1983 Germans Explore Ties of Musicians of Nazis The New York Times Alan Jefferson The Telegraph 20 April 2010 Retrieved 1 December 2015 Michael Church 23 October 2011 BOOK REVIEW Her Masters voice The Independent Retrieved 1 December 2015 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Opera Singer Dies at 90 by Anthony Tommasini The New York Times 4 August 2006 requires registration Der Rosenkavalier 191 Metropolitan Opera House 10 13 1964 Metropolitan Opera Archives Retrieved 19 December 2017 BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Bbc co uk 28 July 1958 Retrieved 6 November 2012 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Alan Jefferson 1996 In any case this famous Desert Island Discs broadcast has gone down in legend immediately identifying Schwarzkopf for many who had never previously heard of her Gramophone vol 83 2006 1958 Appears on Desert Island Discs and raises eyebrows by Gramophone vol 83 2005 Letters Schwarzkopf s Desert Island Discs Talk has come up again of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her Desert Island Discs broadcast in 1958 and recently repeated on Radio 3 with her unique choice of seven of her Prima donna a history Rupert Christiansen 1995 It made Schwarzkopf into a uniquely self conscious interpreter it was perfectly natural to her that when asked on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs to select eight recordings to be shipwrecked with she should choose only her Viewing Page 7 of Issue 52767 London gazette co uk 30 December 1991 Retrieved 6 November 2012 Matthew Boyden The Rough Guide to Opera 3rd Edition London Rough Guides Ltd 2002 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano Gramophone Retrieved 11 April 2012 John von Rhein 18 August 1996 Past Imperfect Chicago Tribune Retrieved 1 December 2015 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Recital review by John von Rhein Chicago Tribune 30 April 1989Further reading EditJefferson Alan Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Northeastern University Press August 1996 ISBN 1 55553 272 1 Chapter One extract Legge Walter postscript by Schwarzkopf Elisabeth ed Sanders Alan Walter Legge Words and Music Routledge 1998 ISBN 0 415 92108 2 Liese Kirsten Elisabeth Schwarzkopf From Flower Maiden To Marschallin English translation Charles Scribner Molden Vienna 2007 ISBN 978 3 85485 218 6 Amadeus Press New York 2009 ISBN 978 1 57467 175 9 Sanders Alan The Schwarzkopf Tapes An artist replies to a hostile biography Classical Recordings Quarterly and The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Walter Legge Society 2010 ISBN 978 0 9567361 0 9 Sanders Alan and Steane John B Elisabeth Schwarzkopf A Career on Record Amadeus Press January 1996 ISBN 0 931340 99 3 Schwarzkopf Elisabeth Les autres soirs Tallandier August 16 2004 ISBN 2 84734 068 8 Schwarzkopf Elisabeth On and Off the Record A Memoir of Walter Legge Faber and Faber December 31 1982 ISBN 0 571 11928 X Scribner March 1982 ISBN 0 684 17451 0 paperback ISBN 0 571 14912 X University of British Columbia Press January 1 2002 ISBN 1 55553 519 4External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Bach Cantatas biography Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Museum in Hohenems Austria BBC Obituary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The Guardian Alan Blyth Obituary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The Times Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf obituary The Daily Telegraph Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf obituary The Washington 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